ACARS ACARS (Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System) is the preferred method of logging your flights at Pacific. In real aviation, the ACARS communicates by satellite or radio to relay location and maintenance information to the ground during a flight. In the VA world, ACARS does much more. Our ACARS is a stand-alone program that runs along with your sim and keeps track of everything you do during your flight, like a Black Box, and logs the flight in your logbook. Manual Pireps are also available but are primarily used as a backup to ACARS.  How to use ACARS You will be able to fly right away with our ACARS application, Here are some basic instructions on how to use ACARS and set up a scheduled flight or a free flight.  You will be amazed how ridiculously simple it is to use compared to our earlier programs. Firstly, our ACARS gets all its information from our crew center, the application itself is essentially a slave that gets all required information from the website. ACARS ACARS is still the preferred way to log your flights. The new ACARS works with all sims the same. There is nothing specific you will need to do to your sim. It works directly from your FSUIPC or XUIPC in Xplane. There are no plug in’s, no API keys to worry about. You may need to install FSUIPC or XUIPC if you don’t have it. That would be all.